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Transmission is the only one that seems to be able to handle everything.
'No Stupid Questions' (NSQ) Internet & Technology Edition
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Haven't touched p2p in a long time but I've been hearing good things about Deluge for a long time. By the way, does anyone know whatever happened to Tribler? It seemed to have some kind of nifty builtin search that was supposed to eliminate the need for http indices. Did it ever revolutionize the world like they said it would?
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I bought a new mouse, it happens to be a Logitech gaming mouse and it's up to 12,000 DPI. It's not my fault, I try to buy local and that's what they had. Is the DPI granularity in movement or does it just make small movements faster? I've only ever had normal mice before so I've never really thought about what it means. I would assume its granularity but raising the DPI only makes it go faster.
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It's granularity, but translated into speed rather than smoothness. (It's not like any GUI supports mouse coordinates with 8 decimal places anyway)
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That makes sense but it seems very much like setting mouse speed to high. The damn Logitech software just crashed(I didn't even click the Overwolf button, don't like the sound of that) but there's a polling option per second that is greyed out for some reason. DPI/polls per second should amount to something, like quick-swiping a circle should track the movement better in the same amount of time. There's also a switch to put the mouse on "high", it uses more battery and I'm feeling like Joe Biden. At least the mouse buttons clicks if a butterfly farts, just like the first optical IntelliMouse, I never knew how much I missed that.
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I picked up an old dell tower for 27 bucks at my local thrift shop and it booted to Linux lite when I was fooling with it at home,-it's actually pretty fast considering most of the hardware is almost 12 years old and it looks like a nuke hit it.
should I sell it to some fag for profit or try to use it to learn the wonders of linux? or just turn it into a windows xp retro gaming rig
should I sell it to some fag for profit or try to use it to learn the wonders of linux? or just turn it into a windows xp retro gaming rig
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Is it a Core2Duo or a Core i[X]? Either way look up if mxkdi have a video on that exact model on youtube to get an idea of what you can do with it. He upgrades and flips office computers for money.
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If it was owned by some stinky neckbeard, check the hard drive for bitcoins before you sell it.
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core 2 duo
if it does ill buy you a lifetime supply of kosher dills
edit: after further examination, it looks to be an old pc from some company a lot of the shit inside is labeled and the hard drive has "cloudready" written on it
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What alternative front-end sites exist for medium.com? Medium loads for shit, but sometimes I want to read something on there. I was hoping there might be a site like teddit.net for reddit, but for medium.
VIPPER?
kiwifarms.net
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There isn't much to learn with modern linux; the days of downloading and compiling from source are over and even then you just download shit and type "make". Modern stuff is all package managers. Even in 2007 or whenever it's from, it was like that.
If it's "only" 12 years old it should take to Win 8 or 10 just fine. You won't be playing Cyberpunk 2077 on it but it could be a good emulator and media box. You could also cram a few big hard drives in it for purely storage and as a local server, again mostly for media or something low-impact like IRC or an older game server. Of course rifle through the drive(s) and see if there's anything juicy or fun first, though.
Your main limiting factor will be how much it can be upgraded. It's probably using a gaggle of old standards where stuff is gonna be pricier than it was new but you can easily at least cram another hard drive in there and throw it on your network to hold rare porn and movies that aren't on Netflix.
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Question: what's the best hard drive erasing tool these days? "Reasonably secure" is good enough, it doesn't have to stand up to the glow-in-the-darks or anything.
These are plain old spinning metal drives, not SSDs.
These are plain old spinning metal drives, not SSDs.
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As long as they are not SMR and no dead sectors have sensitive data in them, the GNU coreutils `shred` command would work. `shred -v /dev/whatever`, but make sure you don't wipe the wrong device.
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Archive.org archived a lot of stuff when Flash went away.
Other than that, older OS in a VM. It's been ages ago but I think you just drag and drop the SWF into the browser window to start it.
A virtual machine is very easy to create, it takes a couple of minutes to create one and if anything goes wrong you just delete it and try again.
This also popped up while finding the link above, never heard of them though.
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Thanks.Archive.org archived a lot of stuff when Flash went away.
Other than that, older OS in a VM. It's been ages ago but I think you just drag and drop the SWF into the browser window to start it.
A virtual machine is very easy to create, it takes a couple of minutes to create one and if anything goes wrong you just delete it and try again.
This also popped up while finding the link above, never heard of them though.
I didnt know the archive let you play flash games.
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What the fuck is wrong with my shit?
-Do I need a new processor?
I assume it's processor issues.
I'm running on a refurbished Dell OptiPlex 7010 that I got for $75. I'm running Linux Mint 20.1 Ulyssa (64 bit). The only modification I've made is a RAM upgrade (from 4GB to 16GB).
This bitch has been cranky ever since I upgraded from 32-bit (I initially installed 32-bit based on outdated wisdom of "if you don't know what you want, you want 32" but now some things don't even work in 32 so...). Every time I restart this piece of shit, it requires I jog the power supply before pressing the power button or I just get a flashing orange light on said button. I get a warning about previous thermal failure when it does turn on and on-board diagnostics does nothing for me. I decided I'd place a mostly empty water bottle on the side of my machine and it looks quite close to forming rain clouds. The system seems to think the CPU temp is 27.8 degrees C regardless of how hard I'm pushing it or even if the fan is screaming. That number's a constant. Said processor is "Dual Core model: Intel Pentium G2120 bits: 64 type: MCP arch: Ivy Bridge rev: 9 L2 cache: 3072 KiB"
How much of a retard am I?
-Do I need a new processor?
I assume it's processor issues.
I'm running on a refurbished Dell OptiPlex 7010 that I got for $75. I'm running Linux Mint 20.1 Ulyssa (64 bit). The only modification I've made is a RAM upgrade (from 4GB to 16GB).
This bitch has been cranky ever since I upgraded from 32-bit (I initially installed 32-bit based on outdated wisdom of "if you don't know what you want, you want 32" but now some things don't even work in 32 so...). Every time I restart this piece of shit, it requires I jog the power supply before pressing the power button or I just get a flashing orange light on said button. I get a warning about previous thermal failure when it does turn on and on-board diagnostics does nothing for me. I decided I'd place a mostly empty water bottle on the side of my machine and it looks quite close to forming rain clouds. The system seems to think the CPU temp is 27.8 degrees C regardless of how hard I'm pushing it or even if the fan is screaming. That number's a constant. Said processor is "Dual Core model: Intel Pentium G2120 bits: 64 type: MCP arch: Ivy Bridge rev: 9 L2 cache: 3072 KiB"
How much of a retard am I?
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I'm assuming based on the water test it is actually hot. How's the thermal paste? Does it even have any?
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I personally haven't checked. As I said, this thing's refurbished so it's not a silly question to ask. I'd like to assume the guy doing the refurbishing was halfway competent but there's little shit here and there which suggests otherwise (for one, the aux port is a bit borked and I have to wiggle it a bit to get it to make halfway decent sound. I suspect a bad solder connection but the way this thing's set up it's a pain in the ass to even take a look at it). I may take a peek in the not-too-distant future but I don't like fucking with shit that "works." But I'd also rather avoid having to buy a whole new processor in the case that things go really south.